Judith Kelly

Judith Clair Kelly AO is a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory (Australia). She was appointed to the Court on 12 August 2009. Justice Kelly was only the second female appointment to the Court since it was established in 1911.Kelly was born in Queensland, daughter of Colin and Valerie Fletcher and granddaughter of Ivy and Harold Snell. She obtained a Diploma in Education and worked as a school teacher, where she married Matthew Kelly. Quotes The NT has the highest rates of domestic violence in Australia: "There is still, in some quarters, a view that the use of physical violence to 'discipline' wives [and others who have done the 'wrong' thing] is justified and is lawful under customary law," Melissa Mackay NT Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly criticises anti-racism 'ideology' sentiment in speech on domestic violence in Aboriginal communities Retrieved 2 Sepmber 2022 Judith Kelly on anti-racism: "[Anti-racism] is beginning to assume the dimensions of a religion or a cult under the influence of which people and institutions are casually and inaccurately labelled as "racist" without any evidentiary basis for the charge," Melissa Mackay NT Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly criticises anti-racism 'ideology' sentiment in speech on domestic violence in Aboriginal communities Retrieved 2 Sepmber 2022 Judith Kelly on paedophiles: "Most folk would almost rather be branded a paedophile than a racist," Melissa Mackay NT Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly criticises anti-racism 'ideology' sentiment in speech on domestic violence in Aboriginal communities Retrieved 2 September 2022 Her sentencing remarks: "…a cowardly and vicious attack on a defenceless woman who should have been able to look to you for protection. You have offered no explanation at all for attacking her, other than that your counsel says you were very drunk at the time. You have a lengthy criminal history, including a conviction for manslaughter in March 1993 for the unlawful killing of your brother and a conviction for unlawfully causing grievous harm in 2005, when you stabbed your then de facto wife. Both of these crimes were committed when you were intoxicated." Bob Gosford Bob Gosford Stopping the Violence…and the traffic in Alice Springs Retrieved 3 September 2010 External Links Category:Women from Australia Category:Judges from Australia Category:Living people